VA's Health IT System: A Model of Innovation

Physicians have the opportunity to provide better care, without, for example, having to drive back to the office on the weekend to answer a call about a patient, he said. Other systems can also learn from the VA's approach to designing the system with the needs of its clinicians in mind, said Dr. Dennis Weaver, acting chief medical officer for the National Alliance for Health Information Technology.

“You've got to build it for the clinicians,” he said.